President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, says she finds it “pretty funny” that some persons are “melting down” at her “joking offer” to carry out at an alternate Tremendous Bowl halftime present.
The podcaster, who’s married to the president’s son, Eric Trump, provided to headline a MAGA-themed halftime present that was introduced by Turning Level USA, the right-wing political group based by slain activist Charlie Kirk. Her suggestion was in response to criticism from the right-wing over Latin singer Unhealthy Bunny being chosen as subsequent yr’s official Tremendous Bowl halftime headliner.
“So we just heard something that’s pretty funny. I heard that there are a lot of people out there on the left who are melting down and very upset about the possibility that I might be performing at the halftime show for the Super Bowl for Turning Point USA,” she stated in an Instagram video Saturday.
Unhealthy Bunny’s vocal condemnation of Donald Trump’s growing ICE raids and his advocacy for Puerto Rico have sparked backlash from some MAGA supporters, who additionally extensively bemoaned that the three-time Grammy winner has no songs which are totally in English.
The musician clapped again on the outrage throughout his monologue on “Saturday Night Live” earlier this month.
Claiming her preliminary suggestion was “clearly a comical and joking offer,” Lara Trump doubled down on her proposition, telling her practically three million Instagram followers that it “still stands” even if she was by no means really provided the chance.
“I’ve not been asked in any formal way to perform for the Turning Point halftime show for the Super Bowl,” she continued. “But everybody out there continues getting upset about it and freaking out about it.”
Final week, the previous co-chair of the Republican Nationwide Committee nominated herself to carry out on the “All American Halftime Show” that’s meant to rival the big-game broadcast on NBC on her “Right View With Lara Trump” podcast. She claimed she heard from “a lot of owners of NFL teams” who’re heated by the choice of Unhealthy Bunny.
“I don’t know what the heck the NFL was thinking with this one, but I can tell there are a lot of people who are not happy about it,” the political pundit stated. “The great news is we don’t need the NFL. We don’t need any of these woke losers to perform, we can have our own performance, so shoutout to Turning Point for coming up with their own halftime show, I love it.”
Lara Trump, whose most-streamed observe on Spotify is a canopy of the 1989 tune “I Won’t Back Down,” initially carried out by late rock musician Tom Petty, has only a measly 13,000 month-to-month listeners on Spotify in comparison with Unhealthy Bunny who boasts 81.3M month-to-month listeners.
In 2020, her cowl of the “I Won’t Back Down” stirred controversy after Petty’s household issued a cease-and-desist order to bar Donald Trump from utilizing the tune on the marketing campaign path. Regardless of that, Lara Trump went on to carry out the duvet at her father-in-law’s golf membership in Westchester, New York, earlier this yr.
